The RIP thread...

Ding Dong. Leslie Phillips.

Somebody’s messing with a son of a bitch in the afterworld, loved that voice.

Garry Roberts, founding member of the Boomtown Rats.
My wife and I sang along to I Don’t Like Mondays on our way out on Monday evening. What a song!!

Garfield's favourite, RIP.

Gal Costa:(
https://youtu.be/JWTQ6Eico8E

Kevin Conroy, the best Batman

https://www.nme.com/news/tv/kevin-conroy-batman-actor-dead-3347746

Batman :(

Hawkwind’s Nik Turner, 82.

Live fast, die eventually. Not a bad innings.

Big Bank Hank, 57, cancer

https://youtu.be/Te7FLFK3o7A

Everywhere is reporting that he's dead at 57/58, but anyone with a slight bit of knowledge would realise this is not correct given when the Sugarhill Gang had their hits. And Wikipedia states the date of birth as 1956, but gives the age as 58.

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He would've been 58 in 2014, which is when all those links suggest he died.

Yeah, that's weird. He'd have been, what, 15/16 when Rapper's Delight was in the charts? I mean, he looks young on that Soul Train video, but not that young.

E2a: lol, just seen the dates. As you were.

Ha, well spotted.

Keith Levene, just 65.

That's a fucker.

That guitar

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Interesting obit for Nik Turner from Alexis Petridis in the Observer today https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/13/open-minded-and-truly-eclectic-nik-turner-was-the-spirit-of-hawkwind

Excellent piece, that. I’ve got a couple of mates who played with Turner in his later years, Mick who drummed with ICU and the other, Dinky, who was asked to jam with him onstage at a festival. She went to the tent and saw it was rammed with fans, shat herself and ran away. Both said he was an absolute gent in a slightly fried way.

I paid tribute by playing Space Ritual live from Reading ‘86 over the shop system on Saturday, and boy it sounded awesome. It may have scared a few customers away but frankly they’re the kind you can do without.

Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man-Month.

Just whilst Elon is attempting to prove the converse of the MMM conjecture

Re Mike Davis.. nice piece in the LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n22/t.j.-clark/on-mike-davis

Wilko Johnson...
https://twitter.com/wilkojohnson/status/1595358840400248832?s=20&t=28FyqDl72DxxSJs-9XgNyw

Ah man, what a legend.

Oh no!